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  • In Brazil, I’m white (says so on my ID card),

    What, did they declare you 50% or more European, and thus white

    Or is your European ancestry is just the most dominant DNA, but it doesn’t surpass 50%…

    Either way, you can consider yourself mestizo or something…

    • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      Most of my ancestry on my father’s side is anti-italian-action, but on my mother’s side it’s all northeastern, and one very sus native Brazilian woman + Portuguese man couple in the 1800s, which carries quite a few nasty implications. If you used “50% or more European” as a criterion for whiteness in Brazil, I’m sure only about 1-2% of the population would be white, lol

      Essentially, the “race” part of our IDs is just a good ol’ brown paper bag test.